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PINNED Enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site
Advantage : Enable the cron for specific site which is necessary. Summary: In Maximo, we have more than 50 Active sites. When we try to enable inventory reservation automatic cron task for specific site, There is no Cron Parameters are available....

IBM MAS - Manage (Base)

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Caching of Sequences for Maximo tables to void performance issue.

Caching of Sequences for Maximo tables to void performance issue. Maximo / Manage installation should set the Sequence caching for all the Maximo/Manage table to avoid the performance issue. Currently we have to set the sequence caching for all th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

E-mail Listener Attachment Descriptions

E-mail listener allows for and processes attachments of inbound emails. I believe this particular aspect is handled by the pre-processor (psdi.common.emailstner.Preprocessor). All attachments are given a generic description of 'E-mail listener att...
over 5 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Not under consideration

Highlight error message in system generated email for Auto PM Work Order generation

Auto PM Work Order Generation process as per desired frequency is a standard Maximo functionality. Users receive an email message after the completion of PM Generation process that contains confirmatory message for work order generation and also e...
over 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Allow Adding TextArea to Work Center Inspections Forms for Comments Greater Than 255 Characters

The option to add a multiline text field or a textarea would be helpful for true comments functionality in work center inspection forms since the existing Text response field is limited to 255 characters. When creating new or revising existing ins...
about 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 0 Future consideration

Currently Role Base Inspection "Enter Time" on the inspection form only pops up widget on mobile and not desktop

We have users performing inspections on desktops, IE material receiving, however if you create an inspection form and add a time field, you cannot select a time. I was told this is not a bug by IBM, however "Role-Based" is more designed for mobile...
8 months ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

Re-open the Quick Find Field

This field is now hidden, and far to the right, and requires the users to do multiple clicks to do a fast find on a single record. This makes it more difficult and less intuitive to users to do a query for a record. Often the proximity of this fie...
almost 2 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 1 Not under consideration

Improve Workflow Designer to all allow disablement of out of data processes

Workflow designer is very inconsistent with allowing process to be disabled, even when the main process revision that they are attached to is disabled. This was reported to IBM on the referenced case as a problem with Application Designer, and the...
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 1 Future consideration

Integrate M365 SharePoint document links as valid web page attachments for Direct Print in Work Order Tracking

Internal business processes leverage M365 SharePoint libraries for policy and procedure documentation. We'd like to incorporate these attachments (.pdf) as printable web page attachments in the Direct Print function in Work Order Tracking.
over 1 year ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / Asset/Work Management 2 Not under consideration

Custom bind variables

It would be helpful if we could define custom bind variables in Maximo. Examples: &FIRSTNAME& &ISINTERACTIVE& &ENVNAME& (i.e. the Maximo environment name; not the same thing as the existing :&HOSTNAME& variable). Us...
over 3 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) / System Admin Config/Security 3 Future consideration

Enhancing Material Allocation/Deallocation automation

The material reservation function in Maximo utilizes a ‘first come first served' approach to allocate material for work. Reallocation of material for work orders takes a considerable amount of manual effort by Supply Chain in order to align the pr...
almost 4 years ago in IBM MAS - Manage (Base) 0 Future consideration